Thanks to Assistant District Attorney Cydney Pope of our Homicide and Non-Fatal Shooting Unit for helping secure justice in a case involving two defendants accused of fatally shooting a 17-year-old high school student and injuring two others outside of a corner store in southwest Philadelphia in...
Thanks to Assistant District Attorney Lauren Crump of our Homicide and Non-Fatal Shooting Unit for helping secure justice in a case involving a defendant found guilty of murder following his involvement in a fatal robbery in April of 2017 in the city’s Fairhill section. The defendant is...
Thanks to Assistant District Attorney Alison Neveil of our Homicide and Non-Fatal Shooting Unit, who helped secure justice in a case involving a defendant accused of non-fatally shooting a person in the leg in June of 2021 in the city’s West Passyunk section. The defendant was convicted of...
Assistant District Attorney Eamon Kenny helped secured justice for two victims of a serial stranger rapist, after a jury found the defendant guilty of all charges including rape, sexual assault, aggravated assault, and illegal possession of a gun. The case stemmed from two separate attacks, one in...
Thanks to Assistant District Attorney Tito Valdes of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit for helping secure justice in a case involving a defendant found guilty by a jury of sexually assaulting the child of a friend whom the defendant was helping while the victim’s mother was taking...
Thanks to Assistant District Attorney Tito Valdes of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit for helping secure justice in late September in a case involving a defendant who repeatedly sent sexually-explicit text messages to his 15-year-old stepdaughter from June to July of 2020 in which he...
Assistant District Attorney Asheeka Desai of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit helped secure justice for a now-teenage girl who was repeatedly raped and sexually abused when she was between the ages of eight and twelve years old. The defendant was found guilty of Rape of a Child, Unlawful...
Assistant District Attorneys Eamon Kenny and Kara Heininger of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit helped secure justice at a recent sentencing for a defendant who was found guilty by a jury of sexually assaulting his daughter. Kenny and Heininger successfully argued that the defendant be...
New in For the Commonwealth: DAO Restorative Justice Facilitator Jody Dodd and Assistant District Attorney Liam Riley helped secure justice in a case involving a 24-year-old defendant accused of assaulting Philadelphia police officers after they responded to a call that the defendant’s partner...
For the Commonwealth highlights the important work our prosecutors are doing to help secure justice in specific cases brought by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Assistant District Attorney Katherine Wood of our Homicide and Non-Fatal Shooting Unit helped secure justice recently in a...